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“My Name Is” samples the 1975 song “I Got The” by british musician Labi Siffre. (The sample can first be heard at the 2:10 mark.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cp58rWCR8Y
Labi Siffre—an openly gay man—was reluctant to have his song be sampled in a song as homophobic as “My Name Is.” He let Dr. Dre and Eminem sample the song on the condition that they get rid of lines about raping lesbians and Eminem’s gay junior high teacher. (Both of those lyrics can be found on the extra explicit version of the song.) When Labi Siffre’s album “Remember My Song” was re-released Labi Siffre wrote in his liner notes about Eminem. He wrote, ““attacking two of the usual scapegoats, women and gays, is lazy writing. If you want to be radical, if you want to do battle, attack the aggressors not the victims.”